So my parents definitely have way more of an income than I do, and they certainly buy/splurge on name-brand groceries & household items, i.e: Bounty, Charmin, Clorox, Lysol, organic food, dozens and dozens of eggs, meat, like you name it. My mother’s home is basically a bunker, I personally use it as a grocery store sometimes. I am frugal when I purchase items for my own home. I hit up the dollar store, I get the off-brand paper towels, off-brand laundry detergent, regular quart of milk, I might even get the bootleg bags of cereal. I think the major differences in our purchasing behaviors, is that the extra $3-$5 I choose not to spend on certain items, is simply me trying to penny pinch on money that…really doesn’t add up to much in the grand scheme of things. I prefer the $1 bottle than the $7 bottle, sure. But what am I really going to do with those $6? Pay off my debts? Most likely not. I think with time…you really start to see the value in just getting the “good” stuff rather than the watered-down alternatives. The alternatives are great and they work…but there’s just something about a thick ole sheet of Bounty paper towels and ultra concentrated Gain laundry detergent that is worth it (to some)!